Let’s pretend your a liberal Speaker of the House attempting to sell government-run health care to the American people, or at least convince your caucus members to ignore the will of their constituents. You can’t make an argument based on cost effectiveness, efficiency, or respect for human life. You’re coming down to the wire and need a really great sales pitch. What do you do?

If you’re Nancy Pelosi, you insist that government-run health care will make it easier for the population to become full-time artists. I. Shit. You. Not.

So, you can‘t—everybody has so much to gain from this, small businesses, as I said, seniors, young people, women, our economy. Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition—is job locking.

Yes, think of an America where every Joe Q. Public could spend his day painting crappy impressionist paintings that will never make any money rather than actually working a full-time job. Utopia!

Allahpundit muses:

I was under the impression that O-Care would force everyone to purchase insurance — on pain of prison — unless they were too impoverished to afford it. Does that apply to Soul Patch too, or does he get to choose impoverishment by opting against gainful employment so that he can stay home and paint “Moonrise Over Williamsburg” or whatever? I honestly don’t know how Pelosi got to where she is being as bad of a retail politician as she is.

Simple. Her father was Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., a Democratic Congressman and mayor of Baltimore. Here brother was mayor, too. Her brother was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And she’s a millionaire liberal in San Francisco.

Welfare for every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to paint some crappy picture. Welcome to Pelosi’s America.